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The Empathy Exams: Essays
Leslie Jamison
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Description for The Empathy Exams: Essays
Paperback. A powerful yet refreshing essay collection centred around themes of confession, illness, violence and sentimentality from an exciting new American talent Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 17. Weight in Grams: 174.
The subjects of this stylish and audacious collection of essays range from an assault in Nicaragua to a Morgellons meeting; from Frida Kahlo's plaster casts to a gangland tour of LA. Jamison is interested in how we tell stories about injury and pain, and the limits that circumstances, bodies and identity put on the act of describing.
The subjects of this stylish and audacious collection of essays range from an assault in Nicaragua to a Morgellons meeting; from Frida Kahlo's plaster casts to a gangland tour of LA. Jamison is interested in how we tell stories about injury and pain, and the limits that circumstances, bodies and identity put on the act of describing.
Product Details
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847088420
SKU
V9781847088420
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99-10
About Leslie Jamison
Leslie Jamison grew up in Los Angeles. Educated at Harvard College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she has also worked as an innkeeper in California, a schoolteacher in Nicaragua, and an office temp in Manhattan. She is the NewYork Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams, as well as a novel, The Gin Closet. Her work has ... Read more
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